The Notation of Medieval Music
Author: Carl Parrish
Publisher: Pendragon Press
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780918728081
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Carl Parrish
Publisher: Pendragon Press
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780918728081
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Carl Parrish
Publisher: New York : Norton
Published: 1957
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work studies the development of musical notation from the ninth to the fifteenth century.
Author: Mark Everist
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-08-09
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1108577075
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Spanning a millennium of musical history, this monumental volume brings together nearly forty leading authorities to survey the music of Western Europe in the Middle Ages. All of the major aspects of medieval music are considered, making use of the latest research and thinking to discuss everything from the earliest genres of chant, through the music of the liturgy, to the riches of the vernacular song of the trouvères and troubadours. Alongside this account of the core repertory of monophony, The Cambridge History of Medieval Music tells the story of the birth of polyphonic music, and studies the genres of organum, conductus, motet and polyphonic song. Key composers of the period are introduced, such as Leoninus, Perotinus, Adam de la Halle, Philippe de Vitry and Guillaume de Machaut, and other chapters examine topics ranging from musical theory and performance to institutions, culture and collections.
Author: Helen Deeming
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-05-28
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 1107062632
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This in-depth exploration of key manuscript sources reveals new information about medieval songs and sets them in their original contexts.
Author: Emily Zazulia
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021-10-15
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 0197551939
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The main function of western musical notation is incidental: it prescribes and records sound. But during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, notation began to take on an aesthetic life all its own. In the early fifteenth century, a musician might be asked to sing a line slower, faster, or starting on a different pitch than what is written. By the end of the century composers had begun tasking singers with solving elaborate puzzles to produce sounds whose relationship to the written notes is anything but obvious. These instructions, which appear by turns unnecessary and confounding, challenge traditional conceptions of music writing that understand notation as an incidental consequence of the desire to record sound. This book explores innovations in late-medieval music writing as well as how modern scholarship on notation has informedsometimes erroneouslyideas about the premodern era. Drawing on both musical and music-theoretical evidence, this book reframes our understanding of late-medieval musical notation as a system that was innovative, cutting-edge, and dynamicone that could be used to generate music, not just preserve it.
Author: Thomas Forrest Kelly
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0393064964
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An accessible history of how musicians learned to record music discusses the work of five centuries of religious scholars while demonstrating how people developed methods for measuring rhythm, melody and precise pitch, leading to the technological systems of notation in today's world.
Author: John Caldwell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-06-26
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 0429575262
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally published in 1978, Medieval Music explores the fascinating development of medieval western music from its often obscure origins in the Jewish synagogue and early Church, to the mid-fifteenth century. The book is intended as a straightforward survey of medieval music and emphases the technical aspects such as form, style and notation. It is illustrated by nearly one hundred musical examples, the majority of which have been transcribed from original sources and many of which contains chapters on Latin chant and other forms of sacred monophony, secular song, early polyphony, the ars antiqua, French and Italian fourteenth-century music, English music, and fifteenth-century music. Each chapter is followed by a classified bibliography divided into musical sources, literary sources and modern studies; in addition to a comprehensive bibliography.
Author: Ridley Pearson
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 2012-08-14
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 1401305148
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Seattle police sergeant Lou Boldt is stunned when the local fire investigator presents him with frightening evidence in a series of fires that have occurred in the Seattle area. These white-hot fires burn so cleanly that even the ash disintegrates--leaving not a trace of its victims or any evidence of criminal activity. Only when Boldt is taunted by someone sending him pieces of melted green plastic--houses from a Monopoly board--does he realize that an arsonist is involving him in a deadly game.
Author: James Grier
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-02-18
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 0521898161
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A detailed critical and historical investigation of the development of musical notation as a powerful system of symbolic communication.